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If you want to be in the game you better shoot 75% from the line. — Pat Summitt

Prepare for every game like you just lost your last game. — Lon Kruger

Practice to beat the best. — Dick Bennett

Players will never do more than you demand. — Jimmy Tillette

Conditioning is essential to success in basketball. — John Wooden

Regardless of what you do put in, every game boils down to doing the things you do best and doing them over and over again. — Vince Lombardi

You can easily separate 'team guys' from 'me guys' by how they accept coaching. The guys that accept it are about winning — Bill Parcells

The more things we can get kids to do correctly off the court, the more they will do correctly on the court. — Mike Jarvis

Most of my learning and philosophy regarding coaching basketball was developed after great frustration. — Dick Bennett

Your contribution as a coach is defending and rebounding. — Dick Motta

What you specifically teach is what your players will do best. — Dick Bennett

When it comes to celebrating, act like you've been there before. — Terry Bowden

I only use statistics to reinforce what I already think, or if it's something unusual. — Dean Smith

What does this program/team need this week? — Dick Bennett

Morale and attitude are the fundamentals to success. — Bud Wilkinson

We teach offense 5-0/5-5 (whole method) and defense by part (1-1/3-3). — Dick Bennett

Defense doesn't break down on the help, it breaks down on the recovery. — Chuck Daly

As a leader, you will receive a large amount of praise and criticism and you should not unduly affected by either. — John Wooden

Players must do what you want them to do in pressure situations. — Don Meyer

Help your players to control their emotions - do this through example. — Norm Sloan

You never realize the value of coaching until your children play for a coach — Don Meyer

When you watch the game, be a student of the game. — Don Meyer

Discipline and demand without being demeaning. — Don Meyer

Great shooters are one dribble guys. — Rick Majerus

The worst day coaching is better than the best day doing anything else — Don Meyer

To be a team, you must be a family. — Don Meyer

It is not what you teach, but what you emphasize. — Don Meyer

Every day you teach attitude. — Don Meyer

Good sound habits are more important than rules - use concepts. — Mike Krzyzewski

The mismatch is not what gets you beat. What gets you beat is giving up the uncontested, open shot. — Rick Majerus

What makes a good coach? Complete dedication. — George Halas

Learning what not to do is sometimes more important than learning what to do. — Rick Pitino

I have a plan of action, but the game is a game of adjustments. — Mike Krzyzewski

Coach now the way you want to coach 10 years from now. — Jerry Krause

Leadership starts at the top. — Morgan Wootten

It's not what you tell your players that counts. It's what they hear. — Red Auerbach

You can't defer if you're the person who's in the leadership position. — Mike Krzyzewski

Put the Team Before Yourself. — Pat Summitt

Good people are happy when something good happens to someone else. — Dean Smith

Offensively, you do what you do best and you do it again and again. Defensively, you attack your opponent's strength. — Vince Lombardi

I'm a Christian first. I'm a family guy second. As much as I like coaching, as much as I like basketball, it's third, fourth, or fifth down the line. — Steve Alford

I hold it more important to hold the player's confidence than their affection. — Vince Lombardi

I've always believed in quickness over strength and size. — Dean Smith

You must have respect, which is a part of love, for those under your supervision. Then they will do what you ask and more. — John Wooden

The key statistic is still to get to the foul line. — Dean Smith

Coaching is making men do what they don't want, so they can become what they want to be — Tom Landry

Your program must have an overriding purpose which is clearly visible and which teaches lessons beyond winning. — Don Meyer

Coaches can talk and talk and talk about something, but if you get it on tape and show it to them, it is so much more effective. — Larry Bird

It doesn't matter where you coach, it matters why you coach. — Don Meyer

Basketball is sharing. — Phil Jackson

Know what you want to emphasize, then do it daily. — Larry Shyatt

Sometimes you learn more from losing than winning. Losing forces you to reexamine. — Pat Summitt

Hearing improves with PRAISE! — Mark Gottfried

When the legs go, the heart and the head follow quickly behind. — Don Meyer

You must have a passion to coach. — Rick Majerus

The first shot does not beat you. — Chuck Daly

All really successful coaches have a system. — Jim Valvano

Simplify the game as much as possible. When you add, you must subtract. — Don Meyer

I didn't get into teaching and coaching for the number of wins or the money. It was a passion for trying to help young people — Bo Ryan

Quickness more than anything else should determine your amount of pressure on the ball. — Don Meyer

He who controlleth the backboard, controlleth the game. — Adolph Rupp

It's not what you teach, it's what you emphasize. — John Wooden

The team is an extension of the coach. — Don Meyer

Teamwork doesn't come naturally. It must be taught. — Pat Summitt

Criticize on defense and encourage on offense. — John Brady

Don't do anything as an individual that will make you stand out from your teammates. — Mike Krzyzewski

Remember this, the choices you make in life, make you. — John Wooden

The big time is not a place; it's the state of your heart. It's not something you get; it's something you become. — Frosty Westering

When you're a coach you've got to go up the ladder, you've got to be ready to travel. That's the nature of coaching — Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

Defense can't guard two things in a row. — Chuck Daly

You better have great practices. — Al McGuire

I am not a strategic coach; I am a practice coach. — John Wooden

The best way to build team chemistry is the way Rupp used to substitute, when they fouled out. — Dean Smith

The worst thing we can do is put the (other) team in a one-and-one. — Mike Krzyzewski

We travel in Duke stuff ... They can have a hat, but it must be a Duke hat. — Mike Krzyzewski

Good shooters take the shots; best shooters take most of the shots. — Don Meyer

You build your program from the ideas of great coaches. — Don Meyer

If you get tough mentally, you can get tough physically and overcome fatigue. — Pat Riley

I have been coaching recently. I coached high school basketball in Arizona, and I hope that more opportunities become available. — Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

Your defense will save you on the nights that your offense isn't working. — Adolph Rupp

It's what you get from games you lose that is extremely important. — Pat Riley

I don't look at myself as a basketball coach. I look at myself as a leader who happens to coach basketball. — Mike Krzyzewski

I never let our players get satisfied, I never let our Coaches get satisfied, I was never satisfied. We can always do it better. — John Wooden

Be quick without hurrying. — John Wooden

Unless you plan to out-rebound and out-shoot everyone you play, then you better learn to handle the ball. — Henry Iba

There was nothing magical that the coaching staff did. This is about the players. — Bill Laimbeer

I enjoy basketball. I enjoy coaching basketball. It's the out-of-season stuff I didn't handle well. — Dean Smith

Even the greatest players accept coaching and value the need for discipline and the order that it brings to the team — Jack Ramsay

The basic premise of my system is to fatigue your opponents with constant pressure defensively and constant movement offensively. — Rick Pitino

Promise yourself to make all your friends know there is something in them that is special and that you value. — John Wooden

Your ability to communicate to your young people will determine your success. — Jim Harrick

I learned early that if I wanted to achieve anything in life, I'd have to do it myself. I learned that I had to be accountable. — Lenny Wilkens

Do passing drills that come from your offense. — John Wooden

Good players can take coaching; great players can take coaching and learn. — John Wooden

Offense is spacing and spacing is offense. — Chuck Daly

Coaching is preparation. — Pete Carril

Only praise behavior that you want to be repeated. Never use false praise. — Dean Smith

If you don't hold your team accountable then you will lose credibility and your team will be spoiled. — John Brady

In planning any type of offense, when a player leaves a spot always replace him with another offensive player. — Hubie Brown

The most important thing is team morale. — Dean Smith